Odd Future show gets shut down by riot police before it even begins

Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator and electronic producer Flying Lotus were scheduled to play an intimate 140-capacity show in L.A on Wednesday night as a precursor to the Odd Future Carnival this weekend. Unfortunately the entire thing was shut down by cops before it even got underway.

Sources report that fans started arriving from 11am in the morning, with congestion becoming a problem from 2pm onwards. By the time the club opened, it became hard to manage all the crowd.

“Our security closed up shop so we could get the situation sorted,” Low End Theory boss Daddy Kev said of the incident. ”I walked outside to see what’s going on and people are calm, but at this point the line has dissolved — there are too many looky-loos, and people are spilling into the street. A squad car rolled by and gave us a little ‘bloop bloop,’ and then there are two cars, and then 10, plus helicopters and the rest.”

With police on the scene, Tyler tried to help calm the crowds by taking to the streets (see image below) but to no avail. Both Flying Lotus and the Odd Future man announced via Twitter that the show was cancelled.

The venue, on the other hand, have said they are “never announcing an artist of that stature ahead of time ever again”.

[via FACT / SPIN]